Modafinil and its Cognitive Effects

Modafinil is a medication which promotes sleeplessness. It works as it modulate the brain with natural chemicals only. Provigil is a brand name of Modafinil. 

Modafinil helps people to remain awake. This medication is approved by FDA in 1998 firstly. This drug to treat narcolepsy, sleepiness which acres excessively during the daytime and also causes obstructive sleep apnea or shift work sleep disorder. 

This drug is also used as off label. Here, off label means, when a drug is used for a disease but is an approved to treat a medical condition. This off label drug is often used by the people suffering from ADHD, Parkinson’s disease or for multiple Sclerosis.

Mostly this drug is favored by students, military people, and executive to stay away from the sleeping deprivation or from fatigue. Like Modafinil, Modalert is also the drug which deals with the same problem and give good results.

From some articles of course, you come to know that it is a safe smart drug of the whole world which deals with Nootropic. But is it true?

The answer of this question is exactly like what comes first egg or chicken…. Which gives a big question mark. Likely, Experts, researchers or any doctor also can’t tell you exactly that how it works? 

Although they knew that what does this drug basically for. They had given a good explanation on this drug and enhances about the chemicals included which improves the brain. In most of the studies it has been concluded that Modafinil (Modvigil) is having the matching stimulants with some other drugs namely as Amphetamine and Methylphenidate. Yes, Almost the structure is completely same but the drugs and their work is totally different. 

Like Stimulants they affect mind, give alertness, and makes your thinking availability power more advancer and many more. As most of the doctors or pharmacists will tell you other medications which gives you the same ingredients but they will not give you the same drug which can put you in addiction and can make you depend on that drug which can be harmful?

Mild side effects of Modafinil

Most of the people is taking Modafinil as it is the safest drug but among them 1/3rd of the people reported that they are facing some or the other side effects of Modafinil. They are very mild like they are dealing with headache or with Very common nausea (among 11%).

Other than these, there is some normal side effects also Like back pain, anxiety, nervousness, insomnia is reported in less than 10% people. 

Modafinil works in a quite method. It reduces the effectiveness of all the contraceptives without disturbing any enzymes and slowly convert the hormones into their active form. 

After taking the medication it is very rare that anyone causes rashes but it rarely causes life threatening rashes which include the Hypersensitivity Syndrome. It you face these types of rashes then it should be urgently treated and you should consult doctor as soon as possible. 

It has been over 20 years now of Modafinil. Most of the experts are not pretty much sure about the affects which can be caused by Modafinil to brain. As this can give a chronic of sleeping deprivation, some increasing anti-social tendencies can also be a topic of concern.

Modafinil and today’s youth

Today the pressure which is faced by our youth it is very dangerous to their health but to remain constant in this ongoing world big users of Modafinil like Millennials and entrepreneurs use this drug to achieve big heights. 

Normally people work only 8-10 hours but after using drugs it gets to 14 hours full concentration. On the other side, it can be a big question that Modafinil can be taken through or mixed with alcohol. 

Despite there is schedule IV to control all these substances, most of the employees take this drug according to them without any prescription or without any consultation which can be very harmful and risky for their health.

Modafinil can really give the cognitive enhancing results?

To find out about this question some very few trials were taken up to go through this question and find a best result out of it. 

In 2003, according to the survey, the results that came upon after asking people who take those drugs were like they feel more energetic and attentiveness is there. After taking the drug it gives more alertness and some improvements were also seen like certain increase in memory tasks like remembering digits more easily or eye sights vision is more attentive but there is a decrease in impulsivity. 

After this survey was done in 2014, and according to that survey impulsive decisions got improvement and no difference was seen in any other performance.

A study was done in 2017 which compares the effect of Modafinil, and other related drugs which are taken by chess players to enhance their performance how it is seen that they mostly preferred two drugs namely Modafinil and methylphenidate. 

With this a conclusion is taken off that Modafinil is one of the best drugs with gives its best results for sleep- deprived population and have limited effects in other people regarding speed, memory and many more.

At the end, just want to say that Modafinil is a prescription medicine that enhances alertness and lowers the severe drowsiness associated with sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea, and shift work disorder (SWD). It is occasionally used off-label to treat ADHD symptoms in individuals 18 and older. You should take Modalert 200 and Waklert Australia according to the prescription of your doctor or consultant.